May 19, 2008

LEWISBURG, Pa. - Katie Dry, a 2007 Bucknell graduate and three-year starting goalkeeper for the Bison women's soccer team is returning to her alma mater as a graduate assistant coach, head coach Ben Landis announced today. Dry finished her stellar playing career with 30 wins, matching the highest total by any netminder in program history, helping the Orange and Blue to a Patriot League tournament championship in 2005 and a regular season title in 2006.

"I am thrilled to welcome Katie back to Bucknell where I think her knowledge, passion, enthusiasm, and care for our student-athletes and the program as a whole will be showcased," said Landis. "She will be active in the training of our goalkeepers, team training and match preparation, recruiting, scouting, and other office responsibilities while also pursuing her Master's degree in biology. I have the fullest confidence that she will make an immediate and lasting contribution as an integral part of our coaching staff."

In addition to holding a share of the career wins record at the end of her four-year playing career with the Orange and Blue, Dry set a program record for career goals against average, 1.46, before current Bison goalkeeper Kathryn Sutton (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville Area), took over the top spot on the list this past fall with a 1.45 goals against average through her first two seasons. Dry is also among the career leaders for shutouts as she finished with nine, the third-highest total in program history.

Dry enjoyed her finest season in net as a senior in 2006 when she started all 18 games and broke the program's single-season goals-against average record with a 0.90 GAA, which also tied for ninth on the Patriot League's single-season list. She played 1592:42 minutes, made 78 saves, posted a .830 save percentage and matched a school record with five shutouts.

A four-time member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll as a biology major, Dry was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District second team in 2006, becoming the first goalkeeper in program history to do so.

Bucknell is a highly-selective, privately endowed liberal arts institution with an enrollment of approximately 3,400 undergraduate students. Bucknell competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the Patriot League and has full membership along with American, Army, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh and Navy. Bucknell has won the Presidents' Cup, signifying the Patriot League's all-sports champion, in 13 of 17 years,

Recently, 17 Bison programs - the seventh-most in Division I - earned NCAA Public Recognition for having Academic Performance Rates in the top 10 percent nationally in their respective sport. In addition, Bucknell ranks fifth in Division I in the total number of CoSIDA Academic All-America selections, with 114 national Academic All-Americans since 1970.